Oleksandr Kuzura
Grinnell College
Project
Shoestring Engineering
Thailand, Peru, India, Bosnia
Western engineering often nurtures a culture of over-improvement that relies on financial investment and return to solve problems. In contrast, folk engineers from areas of scarcity rely on ingenuity and shared cultural wisdom to design simple, robust, energy- and resource-efficient technologies. On my Watson year, I will work with these engineers to understand the push-pull of modernity and the factors that influence community engineering practices.